Elementary Years

Objectives for Elementary School :
1. Students will be able to identify ways in which humans affect their environment.
2. Students will be able to understand as to why and how humans use natural resources and the problems associated with the over use.
3. Students will be able to understand the interdependence between humans and the environment.
4. Students will be able to appreciate the importance of environment preservation.
5. Students will be able to measure their environmental impact of lifestyle choices by taking the ecological footprint quiz.
6. Students will be able to explain how the size of their ecological footprint impacts the Environment.
7. Students will be able to develop strategies to reduce their ecological footprints

Here is a website by Royal Saskatchewan Museum that enables the kids to calculate their Ecological Footprint and also find ways to reduce it.

Here is Someone Else's Shoes Activity. This is an Excellent activity for Elementary grade to help them understand all about Ecological Footprint.

Here is a website with a lesson plan for Elementary grades on Ecological Footprint.

Here is yet another amazing lesson plan by Kathleen O’Neill, a senior at Eastern Michigan University, for Elementary grade.

A lesson plan for elementary and middle school on What is Ecological Footprint.

An excellent activity "TRASH INVESTIGATORS" to make elementary school student aware of the waste that can be recycled.